How do you deal with severe knee pain and do cardio

[Jack3d]

More swimming, less running. Or swtich it up often.

Make sure you are wearing the right shoes.

[Walt Liquor]

First off, yo have to see a doc, dont just take advice online for your knees.

Take it from someone that blow out 2acl's and an mcl. Theres about 10 different things that could be going on.

[jjbj2]

Assuming you are just a bit unhealthy and now trying to exercise back to good health. It might be that you are overweight and you need to lose weight before doing hard cardio i.e. running. If you are going to do cardio do walks first and do it for 30 minutes. It will tire your leg muscles not your knees or joints.

Walking for 30 minutes in a personal treadmill (public gym treadmill 15 minutes) with a brisk pace of #3 to #3.5 is good to help you establish a good heartbeat and good blood pressure. You dedicate yourself for a month or two. If you look at America's "The Biggest Losers" which is a diet show for obese people they do cardio walking pace, ellipsis, or bicycle. They don't run immediately because it demoralize and injure people early on the program. So, they are relegated to doing treadmills, ellipses, and bicycles for a long period of time. After losing a certain amount of weight around 50 pounds especially for those weighing 300+ lbs then you start seeing them doing light jogging to full on running.

Body weight plays a role in knee injuries sometimes skinny people get it too. They don't have enough muscle, fat, water, blood, or anything between their joints. It means their bones are grinding against each other. Fat people are injured through their vertebrae which includes the back, neck, and sometimes you get that headache after doing cardio exercise.

Also, it is why you see Olympic runners are hitting an ideal weight because they don't want to be too fat or too skinny in the hard pounding sports of running/sprinting/whatever.

Another reason for injury is that you are running incorrectly when you are getting tired. Instead of slowing the pace when you are experiencing pain you foolishly go on. Wrong, if you are experiencing pain then it is advisable to slow down, rest, or completely stop if the pain persist. Pounding your feet to the ground instead of letting it fall naturally. We are average people not some professional/amateur runners who developed resistance to pain or just simply figured out a way to reduce pain. We, average people, don't have enough time to develop resistance or figure out a way because we have regular lives which means we have responsibilities like working, taking care of the family, and whatnot. Runners who are professionals or amateurs work as runners. If they get injured they get treated medically by their team, country sponsoring them, or the product endorsing them. We, average people, if we get injured we pay out of our own pocket.

The best way to avoid injury to average people like us is to know when to say enough and just do it slowly. And try to do the little things first before going all out. The little things are usually the ones that save people the most money or their health.

[jjbj2]

First off, yo have to see a doc, dont just take advice online for your knees.

Take it from someone that blow out 2acl's and an mcl. Theres about 10 different things that could be going on.

Yea, this one is a good advice too.

[phallus]

Actually Vibrams fivefingers are good for your knees but I didn't mention them in my post, You did. I do all my long runs in my Nike pegasus.

More swimming, less running. Or swtich it up often.

Make sure you are wearing the right shoes.

First off, yo have to see a doc, dont just take advice online for your knees.

Take it from someone that blow out 2acl's and an mcl. Theres about 10 different things that could be going on.

lol, trig, is the pegasus the ones with bowerman's face in the inside? i have a pair of those that i run in, i've never had another shoe with so much cushioning in the soles